luxury farmhouses for sale Dordogne, France

A 115-hectare estate with a traditional 18th-century house, outbuildings and a farm, nestled in the River Dordogne valley in France’s Périgord area. The property lies on a discreet hill above a river, set back from major roads. It is located between the towns of Bergerac and Sarlat-la-Canéda, around one kilometre from the River Dordogne. You reach the site from the town of Lalinde, on a tourist trail of regional bastides – small, fortified grid-plan towns that were built in south-west France in the Middle Ages. The estate covers around 115 hectares of meadows and woods. A driveway lined with maples leads up to the traditional country house, which was built in the 18th century and then redesigned in the 19th century. The edifice is listed in a register of similar local country houses – known as chartreuses – in the Périgord area. The collection of buildings extends around the main dwelling and its outbuildings, forming a homogeneous residential whole. The main house is made of dressed stone and coated with rendering. It is elongated in shape, in line with the local architectural tradition of the Périgord area. A basement extends beneath it and the main section is flanked with pavilions with roofs of old tiles. Along the top of the facade there are dormers. This facade is punctuated with greyish-blue louvred shutters. A central entrance door with a wrought-iron grate is set in a fine surround of exposed dressed stone. The front court is gravelled and enclosed on three sides by the house’s main section and wings, which house a summer kitchen and a pantry. This court is dotted with neatly trimmed box shrubs and yews. On the north side, there is a farm with separate entrance routes and installations. A former dovecote is set back. It has been converted into a dwelling.

A former farming estate to be restored, with a pond and 9 hectares of wooded grounds, in the Périgord Blanc area, near to Saint-Astier. The property stretches over a surrounding surface of more than 9 ha. An earthen track, at each end of which there are entrances to the property, separates the wooded plots, which make up most of the estate, from the meadows. In the centre, an approximately 2,000-m² pond adjoins a naturally landscaped garden, the main set of buildings and an outbuilding in ruins. The architectural complex forms a closed square with an inner courtyard that is today covered in grass. The north and western parts form an L-shape and accommodate the living areas, while the two other sides are single-level outbuildings. Two corner pavilions, with three and four levels respectively, overlook the rest of the buildings and the courtyard. The living areas are made up of two double level wings and a three-story corner pavilion, all of which are attached and easily interconnected. They are currently divided into three separate dwellings measuring approximately 345 m², 131 m² and 157 m² respectively. However, they could easily be transformed into a single house or divided differently according to choice. The group of buildings, which is both very coherent and yet also fairly diverse, boasts façades made of rendered stone, mainly regularly sized rectangular windows with ashlar frames, extremely sober cornices and gabled as well as hipped roofs made of half-round tiles or flat tiles on the tallest of the two pavilions.